shameless plug for new-look Il-76 waterbomber website

JohnA · Post by **JohnA** » 27 Nov 2004, 21:39

Suggestions for new links include Yahoo/Google News links
for "bush fire" and "forest fire" in addition to wildfire.

http://www.waterbomber.com

Added treat: old IL-76 vs C-130 firefightng airplane piece from one of the world's nicest websites:

http://www.thepoles.com/story/Firefight ... 2003.shtml

The main aviation man at the US Forest
Circus is Tom Harbour.

He speaks!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...ildfires27.html

Post by **Bruspotter** » 27 Nov 2004, 21:51

Hello

Wooow!!! 8) 8) 8) cool idea. Looks like that IL-76 is good for
any terrain (even can take-off on ice/snow 8O )

Must be a great plane for that job, more capacity for water.

Regards: Yannick

JohnA · Post by **JohnA** » 28 Nov 2004, 03:04

Yannick-buddy:

Accept no substitutes

Say

Did you see

Spain is burning (again).

Post by **luchtzak** » 28 Nov 2004, 10:26

JohnA,

thanks for presenting us the url.

For members that don't know what's all about I present them this link:

Waterbomber

JohnA · Post by **JohnA** » 28 Nov 2004, 17:00

Thank you, luchtzak.

Yes - that was a heavily populated thread alright.

There's a perception a 747/Il-76 competition is
brewing.

I'm not so sure that view is shared by people in the know.

Here's a piece from the 747's home town media on that compeition:

I've posted the annotated version from FireGlobe, in Freiburg,
Germany, as there were some pretty fundamental errors:

Trial by Fire:

http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/media/2 ... 910_us.htm
[The "Rebuttal" directly linked through FireGlobe annotation is now only available by going to waterbomber.com's links page.]

Bring 'em on